Women Stereotypes Depicted in Daya’s Song Entitled Sit Still, Look Pretty

Binary opposition is the pairing of connected words which has antipodal meaning and hierarchical relation, for example: men and women. Since long time ago, patriarchal society had placed men in a higher position than women. This condition privileges men while handicaps women. Therefore, feminism helps women to uplift their position to be equal with men. Feminist's activism can be done through many ways, one of which is via literary works. The objective of this research is to examine women stereotype issues depicted in a feminist literary work entitled Sit Still, Look Pretty sung by Daya. To conduct this research the writers applied feminist literary criticism. The data are gained from two sources, the lyrics are taken from Genius.com and the music video is taken from Daya’s official Youtube. The results reveal that Sit Still, Look Pretty both represents women stereotypes that exist in society and endorses new stereotypes of women.